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New Gallery: 30 images of Campania

by NickL on November 7, 2009

in Italy, Travel

Sorrento Sunset over the Bay of Naples

Sorrento Sunset over the Bay of Naples

I am delighted to announce that a new feature gallery has gone live dedicated to Campania, Italy. Many of the images have already featured on my photoblog site Journog. The images were all taken in and around Sorrento, Positano and Herculaneum. Currently a selection of 30 images are available for your perusal but more may be added in the future. We will no doubt go back again at some point within the next few years.

All images may be purchased as prints, cards or sent to friends as e-cards (which are free).

I have long been toying with the idea of producing a book on the area, which I may well do at some point in the future. If this is something you’d be interested in, let me know. I will most definitely be working on book projects in the future in any case.

To visit the new gallery go to http://www.nicklewis.net/gallery/travel/campania

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Intarsia – The art of Italian Inlaid Wood

by NickL on October 6, 2009

in Italy, Travel

Music boxes made of Inlaid Wood (Intarsia)

Music boxes made of Inlaid Wood (Intarsia)

Sorrento is famed for it’s inlaid wood craft-work, a craft known as Intarsia. These products can be found worldwide, you may have spotted them in stately homes that have an Italian influence, in which the family of the time may have travelled far and wide to choose the exquisite furnishings for their home. These objects of beauty are often priceless and if put up for auction would fetch many thousands… [click to continue…]

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The Italian love for football

October 4, 2009
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I am watching the World go by under my feet, quite literally as it happens for we are two storeys up from Via Califano that runs beneath our hotel balcony. Right opposite where I am standing is the sports ground and home of Sorrento Calcio, the local football team. A family (I assume them to [...]

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Cattedrale di Sorrento

October 2, 2009
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On this occasion the sun was out, the temperature a nice 30 degrees and time to use the good old polariser on my lens. However when I first discovered this particular location, it was very different indeed.
Two days earlier…
They say – “when it rains it pours” – We discovered the archway during a lightning storm [...]

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Welcome to Sorrento!

September 29, 2009

Mandolin music emanates from an inviting and yet to be explored street. We take it, inquisitive to discover for ourselves what the cobbled, narrow street has to offer. Tall medieval buildings protect us from the strong late morning sun that beats down on the old city, illuminating the laundry that spans the street high above [...]

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Buongiorno Sinori. Comesta?

September 26, 2009

We returned yesterday from a fabulous trip to Sorrento Italy. Great to see the weather here in the UK is good albeit a bit fresher than what we’ve become accustomed to recently. I have stacks of material (as in photos and writing) to publish here on the blog and journog.com also. So more to come [...]

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Sorrento on my mind

July 31, 2009

Our big trip of the year is looming closer and we are getting very excited, in fact painfully so at times. In just around 5 weeks time (it may be 6 but sod it) we’ll be heading for Gatwick at a crazy hour of the morning but I don’t care for the trip ahead is [...]

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